London’s water

Our resident food historian on how the capital went from epidemics caused by faulty sewage to enjoying one of the safest tipples around

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That’s amaro

Our resident food historian on how, with a bit of love and care, you can lift up the throwaways of citrus fruit – pips, pith, peel and all – to their fresh and bitter best

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Full of beans

Our resident food historian on all manner of beans, from ‘glorious mush’ to a variety for the dead, and a very talented woman who painted them

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The Joys of Sludge

Our resident food historian on beauty in beige, and why ordinary folks in the Middle Ages had it right with their ‘dreary but delicious’ diet

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Alice in Hackneyland goes west

The Wick-based art collective takes its signature flair to Twickenham for a major six-month exhibition celebrating the 300-year history of Orleans House Gallery’s lavish Octagon Room

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Susanna’s Manners

Our resident food historian on 17th-century childcare, from high chairs ‘built like battleships’ to ‘fearsome’ baby walkers

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Beanz meanz…

In search of a suitable lockdown subject, our resident food historian hits upon a humble tin of black-eyed beans in her kitchen cupboard

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